Xenopholis werdingorum Jansen et al., 2009

Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1), pp. 1-274 : 48

Xenopholis werdingorum Jansen et al., 2009

Type locality. Hacienda San Sebastián, Ñuflo de Chávez , department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia and Brazil, in the central portion of South America ( Plt. 409A ). In Brazil, restricted to the western portion of the Cerrado and its contact areas with the Pantanal and Chiquitano Dry Forest ( Plt. 409A ) at low elevations ( Plt. 409B ). Observed in the field in savanna enclave within dry forest, primary forest, and disturbed areas ( Carvalho and Nogueira, 1998; Jansen et al., 2009; Powell et al., 2016).

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Plate 409. Distribution map of Xenopholis werdingorum in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.